“I don’t think that he’s really willing to help the issue, I think that he’s just willing to make a splash in the media by sending the military down,” Holdsworth, senior vice president of issues management at MWWPR Public Affairs, told hosts Krystal Ball and Buck Sexton.

Trump ordered active-duty troops to the border last year, saying they were needed because of a surge in immigrants seeking to come to the United States.

The president also declared a national emergency at the border last month as a means of securing additional funding for his long-promised border wall.

“It’s the fact that the marines are not the answer. We should be sending in FEMA. We should be sending in other organizations, not the military. It is taxing to the military,” Holdsworth said.

“I also think that this is a symptom of the president not being deliberative. He’s not being contemplative. He’s pushing a narrative on this. Whether or not you believe that there is a 'crisis' on the southern border, I particularly do not believe it is a crisis, but I believe that it is certainly a humanitarian issue that we are not paying appropriate attention to," she continued.

“If the president was very concerned about making sure that all of these people were processed,and that all of these people coming not just from the southern border but from other countries to the southern border to enter into the United States, he would take a more holistic approach to how were were going to reform immigration in this country, and he’s not willing to do that," she said.

A former intelligence officer said Friday that releasing prisoners guilty of terrorism-related charges like “American Taliban” John Walker Lindh to society poses a serious challenge for the United States.

President Trump is moving to require those who sponsor legal immigrants to the U.S. to pay for any public benefits they receive in a move meant to crack down on "welfare tourism," according to a Thursday presidential memorandum.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, in an exclusive interview with The Hill's Bob Cusack on Wednesday, defended his knowledge of government policy following a viral exchange in which he seemed to confuse a housing acronym with Oreo cookies.

Journalist Ryan Grim said in an interview that aired Wednesday that progressive Democratic presidential candidates are battling to stand out in the crowded primary field by unveiling a series of policy proposals.

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is praising a county in Washington state for vowing to stop serving flights carrying immigrant detainees being deported by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Progressive Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) acknowledged that President Trump’s 2016 election served as a “wake-up call” that rural Americans have been left out of the economic successes stemming from industries like tech.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) said in an interview that aired Wednesday on “Rising” that Trump administration sanctions on companies like the Chinese telecom giant Huawei are reasonable, citing national security purposes.

Conservative operative and provocateur Roger Stone is considering suing the federal government to determine if he was the subject of an FBI surveillance effort on the Trump campaign, his attorney wrote in letters to U.S.

Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), in an exclusive interview with Hill.TV, broke with a growing number of progressive Democratic colleagues on whether it is time to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump.